Parison vs Prison - What's the difference?
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(glassblowing) A spherical mass of glass, rolled immediately after being taken out of the furnace.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day (Vintage 2007), page 278:
A place of long-term confinement for those convicted of serious crimes, or otherwise considered undesirable by the government.
(uncountable) Confinement in prison.
(colloquial) Any restrictive environment, such as a harsh academy or home.
As nouns the difference between parison and prison
is that parison is (glassblowing) a spherical mass of glass, rolled immediately after being taken out of the furnace while prison is a place of long-term confinement for those convicted of serious crimes, or otherwise considered undesirable by the government.As a verb prison is
to imprison.parison
English
Noun
(en noun)- The wineglasses were from a matched dozen, each having begun as a glowing parison at the end of some blowpipe over in Murano but days before.
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*prison
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(wikipedia prison)Noun
- The cold stone walls of the prison had stood for over a century.
- Prison was a harrowing experience for him.
- The academy was a prison for many of its students because of its strict teachers.
